With a couple of taps on my iPad I found myself over on the Yale website reading, their article which put this paragraph in front of me:

“In their research, Duman and others show that in a series of steps ketamine triggers release of neurotransmitter glutamate, which in turn stimulates growth of synapses. Research at Yale has shown that damage of these synaptic connections caused by chronic stress is rapidly reversed by a single dose of ketamine.”

After shifting over to my lap top, I took another step and watched “New Mechanism Elicited with Ketamine in Treatment-resistant depression“. Fortunately, at no point did anyone push the idea of our finally being able to completely end depression. What has been suggested is that we may have found a completely new avenue down which to trod in trying to deal with an old and crotchety problem.

Keep an eye on this for yourself. Who knows, inside the next decade we may seen another potential means of quickly dealing with depression.

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Before 1999 I was active in mental health doing assessments, emergency interventions, psychotherapy, domestic violence group treatment, and consulting in the foster care system. Rapidly, in 1999 I was lovingly shoved in disability because of temporal lobe epilepsy. Then, in June of 2001 my left temporal lobe was chucked into a trashcan. Since then, I have been playing at reconfiguring the who I had been. I just have too many spare parts still strewn across the floor.

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I was excited when I found out about this new discovery too. A friend of mine recently went on an SSRI for extreme depression and during lunch one day he expressed his frustration. “So you mean I have to manage to not kill myself for the next three weeks before we find out if this MIGHT work…oh and by the way you’re going to feel worse while you’re waiting?!” Hope we continue with discoveries like this–